Hi there guys, for a long time I’ve been trying to learn how to develope games, and I choose HTML5 because I think it is the future, and there are a lot of improvements in the past 2 years. HTML5 gives us the hability of making games that work in different devides such as SmartPhones, Tablets and Desktops.

I know the basics in programming, OOP, and make easy games, but I want to do something nice for this LD. In this 21 days that I have left, I will try to learn the basics about game mechanics, how the stuff works, how to make tiles games and those kind of things.

Give me luck in my first LD!!

Gikdew, from Spain.

Skype: gikdew, Add me if you want to talk…

Hi gamedevs! My name is Manuel a.k.a. Gikdew and I’m from Spain.

LudumDare is so close, and I’m so excited, this is my first LD, I’ve tried to participate in the last 2 LD but I always had problems with software, or I don’t know how to program this or that. But now I’m prepared, I’ve been learning programing for a long time now and I think I will be able to finish my first game, including music and art.

I’m using Html5 because after reading a lot, I think is the future of the web and even of mobiles, it has a small learning curve and lots of doccumentation. I will be using ImpactJs, because is fast to develope with, has a Level Editor called weltmeister which is awesome and its community is so helpful.

[stextbox id=”grey”]

• Language: JavaScript – HTML5
• IDE: Sublime Text 2 (my favourite text editor)
• Framework: ImpactJS
• Graphics: Photoshop[/stextbox]

I’m always willing to talk about GameDevelopment and that stuff so feel free to contact me…

[stextbox id=”info” mode=”css”]Skype: gikdew[/stextbox]

Tags: html5, impactjs, javascript

So, I have been preparing my desktop with all the shortcuts for fast development. I’ll be using SunVox for making the music, It is my first time and I’ll try to learn tomorrow how to use it…

Pickle and photoshop for the graphics, and Sublime Text 2 for making my html5/javascript game with ImpactJS.

Tags: desktop, impactjs, photoshop, pickle, shortcut, sublimetext2

I gotta work on the graphics right now, but the basic game idea is done. All the timers built and the engine is working properly.

I have to solve some bugs, add some graphics, and make some tutorial to teach the player how to play my game. I hope you enjoy this screenshot.

Tags: colors, haraka, html5, javascript

I’ve been learning how to code games in HTML5 for the last month, and for the first time, I think I’m ready to make a good game for this upcoming Ludumdare.

• Code : JS and Html5
• Framework : Phaser.io
• Music and Sounds: Sfxr and Audacity
• Graphics: Photohsop

I also decided to post my progress on my new game dev blog http://gikdew.com, feel free to go there, comment and check out my last game Circula.

The only thing I hope about ludumdare #29, is that anyone upload a remake of Flappy bird (unless is fucking awesome and fun), so please don’t make flappy birds!

Hello there, I’m the guy from this post, two weeks ago I decided to make one game per week in order to improve my skills developing games and also for getting prepared for the ludumdare! You check out the game of my second week – “Game #2 – Cloud Wars”.

Second Week Game – Game#2 – Cloud Wars

Hello there, I’m the guy from this post, I’m making one game per week and this time I make this game in only one day and a half. Play it and give me some feedback, in the blog section you can check how I make this game and the upcoming tutorials. Play Fast Racing here!

Second Week Game – Game#3 – Fast Racing

@gikdew | http://gikdew.com

My ludumdare 29 game started like 12 hours later, since in Spain the Jam started at 2:00AM and I couldn’t stay all night awake. I might have work on my game about 15 hours in total, including graphics, music and code, I spent more time trying to get a cool idea and mocking up things that finally didn’t work.

Game Idea

My game was going to be a rogue like game, with dungeons, monsters, lasers and cool pixel lighting since I had a little engine for those kind of games that I built some weeks ago. After trying to code the level generation I ended up by giving up that idea and trying something easier to code and with less maths.

I love taking screenshots while I’m developing something, so this post is full of it.

After wasting 3 hours thinking a new game, I came up with the worm idea, at first it was going to be a dirt worm, exploring the world and avoiding enemies to survive but then I ended up making a water worm because I wanted the background to be blue (fits better with the overall design) and not dirt brown.

Making the game more Juicy

Since I watched this video on youtube, I’m obsessed of making “juicy” games, I mean, adding tweens, color changes and flashes to it because I think it makes the user experience better. In Wriggle Worm as you can see the HUD fades in and out when you change the game state (from menu to the main game) and also the background color changes once in a while making the game design more clean.

Lots of Maths

One of the mains problems I had while I was developing this ludumdare entry was that I was not fluid with the maths that I needed to develope my game, eventhough I’m studying a Engineering degree in Electronics and we use advance maths everyday. I didn’t have enough time to get a paper and start calculating things so I made the game more simple than I wanted to be.

Dev Screenshots

As I said earlier, I love making screenshot and tweeting about it, below there are some of those screenshots, you can see the progress in the game development.

Rate my game! | LD entry – Wriggle Worm | @gikdew

This time I will try to make my game with LibGDX and java. Wish me luck!

Hi guys, I’ve just released a new Android Game called Two Dots, it is an endless addicting casual game and I want you to be part of it! Can you try it and leave a review on the play store! That would be awesome guys!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gikdew.twodots

Hi guys, I’ve just released a new Android Game called Circle Pong, it is an endless addicting casual game and I want you to be part of it! Can you try it and leave a review on the play store! That would be awesome guys!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.madtriangle.circlepong

I hope you like my flat design! Post your scores here!

The game I made for the past Ludum Dare has just arrived to Android Play Store –https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.madtriangle.fourdots.

Four Dots is a challenging arcade game where you have to match the falling balls with the core just by tapping left or right. Can you beat my highscore?

Download here!